Bank of the Year, Trinidad & Tobago: Republic Bank

Nov 1, 2013

The island’s biggest and most profitable bank is looking across the Atlantic for growth

When you’ve spent 176 years in business,
chances are it means you’ve struck a winning
formula. So it is that Republic Bank, which has been in the
English-speaking Caribbean for that long, has notched up
another strong year. The bank grew assets to 55 billion
Trinidad dollars ($8.7 billion) in June 2013, up from 51
billion Trinidad dollars a year earlier, and maintained an
impressive capital adequacy ratio of 30%. Similarly it
performed well. In...